Person:Joseph Spencer (32)
Major General Joseph Spencer
b.3 Oct 1714 East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
d.13 Jan 1789 East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 2 Oct 1707
  1. Rebecca Spencer1712 -
  2. Major General Joseph Spencer1714 - 1789
  3. Isaac Spencer1723 - 1787
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Major General Joseph Spencer1714 - 1789
  • W.  Martha Brainerd1716 - 1754
m. 2 Aug 1738
  1. Martha Spencer1739 - 1739/40
  2. Martha SpencerEst 1740 - 1796
  3. Hobart SpencerEst 1742 - 1806
  4. Anna Spencer1746 -
  5. Israel Brainerd Spencer1748 -
  6. Dr. Joseph Spencer1750 - 1824
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Major General Joseph Spencer1714 - 1789
  • W.  Hannah BrownEst 1730 - 1808
m. Bef 1757
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Major General Joseph Spencer
Gender Male
Birth[1][4] 3 Oct 1714 East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Marriage 2 Aug 1738 East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United StatesJoseph Spencer and Martha Brainerd were second cousins.
to Martha Brainerd
Marriage Bef 1757 Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child.
to Hannah Brown
Death[1] 13 Jan 1789 East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Burial[1][5] Nathan Hale Park, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Reference Number? Q6287121?


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Joseph Spencer (October 3, 1714 – January 13, 1789) was an American lawyer, soldier, and statesman from Connecticut. During the Revolutionary War, he served both as a delegate to the Continental Congress and as a major general in the Continental Army.[1]

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Joseph Spencer in Wikipedia.
  2. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Four Spencer Brothers: Their Ancestors and Descendants. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Apr, Jul 1951; Jan, Apr, Oct 1952; Jan, Apr, Jul 1953; Jan, Oct 1954)
    29:183-86.

    "160. Maj.-Gen. Joseph4 Spencer (Isaac3, Samuel2, Gerard1), born at East Haddam, Conn., 3 Oct. 1714, died there 13 Jan. 1789; …"

  3.   7. Martha3 Brainerd, in Brainard, Lucy Abigail. The Genealogy of the Brainerd-Brainard Family in America: 1649-1908. (Hartford, Conn.: Hartford Press. : The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1908)
    2:Hezekiah:70-71.

    "… Gen. Joseph Spencer, of East Haddam, Conn., b. Oct. 3, 1714, son of Dea. Isaac and Mary (Selden) Spencer of the same place. … He m. (2), in 1756, Hannah (Brown) Southmayd of Waterbury, Conn. He was admitted as a member of the Millington Church, March 23, 1746. He was one of the councilors of this state. He was justice of the quorum for Hartford Co. from May, 1778, to 1779. He was judge of probate for the district of East Haddam and Colchester for 35 years. In 1758 he went into the northern army in the capacity of a Major under Col. Nathan Whiting, and the two following years as a Lieut. Col. in the last French War, and acquired the character of a brave and good officer. In the war of the Revolution his regiment was raised on the first call for troops by the legislature in May, 1775, recruited mainly in Middlesex Co., and in the eastern part of the Colony, marching in companies to the camp around Boston, it took part in Roxbury, and served during the siege until the expiration of term of service, Dec. 10, 1775. Detachments of officers and men engaged at the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, and at Arnold's Quebec expedition, Sept. and Dec., 1775, adopted by continental in July. The regiment was reorganized for service in 1776. He was appointed a Brigadier and in 1776, Major General in the army of the United States. He resigned his commission two years after. His civil and military offices were an honorable testimony to his abilities, tfhesc. however, did not constitute his greatest glory. He lived the pure doctrines and obeyed the pure precepts of the Gospel. Few have given clearer evidence of a change of heart. He early made a confession of religion, and served many years as a deacon in the Millington Congregational Church, having been elected Nov. 20, 1767, excused while in the army, and re-elected Apr. 4,1788. General Joseph Spencer d. Jan. 13, 1789, in his 75th yr. By his second marriage he had nine children."

  4. ↑ East Haddam Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    170.

    "Spencer, … Joseph, s. Isaac & Mary, b. Oct. 3, 1714 [LR2:1127]"

  5. ↑ Joseph Spencer
    Gen Joseph Spencer, in Find A Grave.

    Originally buried at Millington Cemetery; remains were removed to the current site at Nathan Hale Park ca. 1901.

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